crocodilus Latin · revision 7600

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Cicero|origins=grc κροκόδειλος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [krɔ.kɔˈdiː.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kro.koˈdiː.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crocodīlus''' ''m'' (genitive crocodīlī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κροκόδειλος|tr=krokódeilos|t=crocodile]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Köbler compares [[grc|κρόκη|tr=krókē|t=pebble]].^(Köbler 2010) Phaedrus and Martial have ⟨corcodīlus⟩, Seneca ⟨cocodrillus⟩, and Varro the Greek nominative ⟨crocodīlos⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cicero, of the crocodile.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the crocodile, as in Cicero, Seneca and Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Pliny the Elder it also meant a land reptile, the Nile monitor.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a crocodile.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for the crocodile and also for the cockatrice or basilisk.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''coccodrillo'' and Spanish ''cocodrilo'', and Old French ''cocodrille'' gave Middle English ''cokedrille'', respelled [[en|crocodile]] in the 1560s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the crocodile.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the Nile monitor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – Middle English ''cokedrille'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|crocodile]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # The Nile [[m|en|monitor]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|cockatrice]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|crocodile]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}